Playground Winter Festival 2017

Today on partypoker

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If you can’t make it out to Playground Poker Club today – though you really should – there is a ton of great stuff happening on partypoker you’ll want to check out!

  • Starting at Noon are the first satellites for this spring’s Grand Prix Canada! Online Day 1s begin next Sunday – but satellites start today. Win your way into this fantastic event with a $500,000 Guarantee!
  • The final WFT$ Satellites will be held tonight – win Tournament Dollars you can use to buy in to any event in the Playground Winter Festival!
  • Tonight is also the final online satellite for the WPT Playground, with Mini Feeders and Feeders available earlier in the day to help you win your way into the WPT for as little as $0.01.
  • Last but not least, there’s a $410 partypoker Million North America Phase 1 going tonight – and plenty of Mini Feeders and Feeders to use to qualify your way in for a low buy-in. The first 100 players to qualify for Day 1 online get back their buy-in as a bonus – 86 prizes left to be won!

So, while we hope you’ll join us in person here at Playground – there’s always great poker action to be found on partypoker!

Register until 12:15 this afternoon

  • Level: 2
  • Small Blind: 75
  • Big Blind: 150
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 20.8K
  • Remaining: 131
  • Entries: 136

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Play in Day 1E is most of the way through level 2, and late registration is permitted until the end of the break following level 4 – in other words, until 12:15pm. If you’re concerned about your Sunday sports fix, remember that today’s hockey game will be shown on a majority of the screens throughout the room – and you’ll be finished in time to watch the big football game.

Here are a few photos from the first two levels today.

Today: Day 1E of the $250 Frenzy

  • Level: 1
  • Small Blind: 50
  • Big Blind: 100
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 20K
  • Remaining: 68
  • Entries: 68

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It’s a lovely, mild Sunday in the Montreal area and here at Playground Poker Club, players have taken their seats to begin play in Day 1E of The $250 Frenzy. This is the 5th of 6 starting flights in the event, and with 655 entries already booked, the number of entries required to surpass the guarantee should be achieved today – and every entry past that point will grow the prize pool more and more.

There are 134 stacks that have qualified for Day 2 so far, although one player has qualified twice and the smaller stack will be removed. So a total of 133 unique players have secured their participation in Day 2, which will begin on Monday evening at 7:00pm.

The tournament director has just made the introductory announcements and with that, cards are now in the air!

Good luck on the felts!

Event 3 Day 1D final counts

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The 4th of 6 Day 1s in Event 3 has concluded with 43 players surviving the 14 levels of play out of the 209 entries that began the night. Here is the official list of Day 2 qualifiers. We are also making available a single combined list of qualifiers, available here.

First Name | PrénomLast Name | NomStack | Tapis
AndrewBoujaoude240,000
GauravArora226,500
RoyRochette179,000
MarkHowie172,000
LeoMantas Ragusa162,000
YohannWagner160,500
Jean AllanChristine156,000
PrestenCloutier155,000
AlexandreBeaudette140,000
JohnAraujo137,500
LeeChanwoo133,500
Pierre MarcChadi123,500
NicolasMajdalani114,000
DavePelletier-Bremner112,500
DwayneScott109,500
DauneFernandez106,500
DanielJohnston105,500
MartonSzlavy101,000
EvangelosKamperis98,500
JuneJenkins95,500
SeanGrover95,000
AlexandreBergeron-Cyr90,500
JanineBibb90,000
PascalGregoire88,500
DenyseMignault77,000
Shu Pui PhilipTse75,500
SaidMichailidis72,500
ArnoldYaxley70,500
LineDesjardins63,500
BenMenache62,500
Anthony-PaulBelle-Isle62,000
MarcBourgeois61,500
FrederickPynn60,000
MelanieAres59,000
David Joseph DonGionet57,500
Jaroslaw ZbigniewJaskiewicz53,000
NaghibollahNoori52,500
MaximeAsselin Blain35,500
LeorWasserman28,500
MahmutZor27,100
AlbertBassal26,000
MitchellDredge23,000
CharlesLa Boissonniere14,000

Marmagkiolis in the driver seat with 3 levels left

  • Level: 12
  • Small Blind: 800
  • Big Blind: 1.6K
  • Ante: 200
  • Chip Average: 52.3K
  • Remaining: 80
  • Entries: 209

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The last break of Day 1D has just passed, and players are on the final stretch of the night with 3 levels to go before bagging onto Day 2.

Leading the way is Dimitrios Marmagkiolis, who has amassed nearly 185,000 in chips so far. Below are the top counts as play enters level 12. Once play is complete in this flight we publish the full list of qualifiers through the 4 starting flights that have been completed so far. All results are available via the “Results” Tab, above.

First Name | PrénomLast Name | NomStack | Tapis
DimitriosMarmagkiolis184,900
AndrewBoujaoude142,900
PrestenCloutier137,400
RoyRochette134,100
GauravArora128,000
NicolasMajdalani105,100
DilovanHussein102,500
LineDesjardins95,900

Photographs from level 11:

99 remain

  • Level: 10
  • Small Blind: 500
  • Big Blind: 1K
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 42.7K
  • Remaining: 99
  • Entries: 209

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The Day 1D field is now down to 99 players split across 10 tables, and another 2 hours of play separates the remaining contenders from bagging their chips onto Day 2. There will be a short break following level 11 where we will publish the tops stacks.

Photographs from levels 9 and 10: